LEAD AWS JAVA DEVELOPER LOCAL TO IL
Full Time
75% Travel Required
Hybrid
Depends on Experience
S3 Staffing USA
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Skills
- Java
- AWS
- Lead
- REST API
- Spring Boot
- Micro Service
- SQL
- Kafka
Summary
Lead Software Engineer (Java/AWS)
Location: Chicago office (Hybrid - 3x days in office per week)
Duration: 12 months (starting July 6, 2026)
Interview: 2 rounds (Technical screening + 2-hour panel; In-Person)
Location: Chicago office (Hybrid - 3x days in office per week)
Duration: 12 months (starting July 6, 2026)
Interview: 2 rounds (Technical screening + 2-hour panel; In-Person)
VISA: , TN, L2, E3, (DOB below 1987)
Required Education
• Bachelors Degree
Required Skills
• Strong AWS expertise – designing and operating cloud-native, highly available distributed systems
• Advanced Java and/or Kotlin in production environments
• Spring Boot – building microservices and REST APIs (Spring Web/MVC, dependency injection, configuration, actuator/health checks)
• Microservices architecture and distributed systems patterns (service boundaries, resiliency, fault tolerance)
• RESTful API design and implementation with documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger)
• SQL and relational databases – data modeling, query tuning, performance optimization
• NoSQL / non-relational data stores (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra)
• CI/CD pipelines and build/deploy automation (quality gates, repeatable releases)
• Data streaming / asynchronous messaging – event-driven patterns (e.g., Kafka)
• Observability – logging, metrics, tracing, and production troubleshooting / incident investigation
Soft Skills (Must-Have)
• Strong technical communication skills – able to clearly explain complex designs and trade-offs to engineers, product owners, and managers
• Collaborative mindset – ability to work effectively across teams on shared architectures and dependencies
• Technical leadership and ownership – driving decisions and follow-through on complex engineering problems
• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking – especially in debugging, production support, and performance issues
• Ability to balance technical depth with delivery – making pragmatic decisions aligned with business priorities
• Comfortable participating in Agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) while remaining primarily hands-on
Job Requirements
• Provide deep technical leadership for the design and implementation of Java-based, cloud-native systems on AWS
• Define service architecture, data flows, and integration patterns to meet strict scalability, availability, and security requirements
• Drive architectural decisions across microservices, event-driven, and asynchronous processing patterns
• Ensure clear service ownership and well-defined contracts between services
• Define standards for infrastructure-as-code, resiliency, fault tolerance, and graceful degradation
• Proactively identify architectural bottlenecks, scalability constraints, and technical debt
• Lead development of core backend services using modern Java frameworks and AWS-native patterns
• Design and implement RESTful and event-based APIs
• Build message-driven processing and distributed data management solutions
• Guide adoption of AWS services including managed compute, messaging, storage, and databases
• Investigate and resolve defects, performance issues, and production incidents
• Implement fixes and improvements to ensure system stability and reliability
• Support reliable operation of distributed systems in production through observability, logging, metrics, and tracing
• Review pull requests and lead technical design discussions
• Define architecture and implementation standards for the team
• Establish technical best practices for CI/CD automation, observability, and production troubleshooting
• Work closely with the engineering team to guide design and implementation of Java-based services on AWS
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to align on APIs, integrations, and shared cloud architecture
• Partner with Product Owners and engineering managers to translate requirements into technical solutions
• Align execution with delivery priorities
• Participate in architecture reviews and integration discussions
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, and retrospectives
• Attend necessary technical and operational calls
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- Dice Id: 91159673
- Position Id: 9008805
- Posted 1 day ago
Company Info
About S3 Staffing USA
S3staffingusa is an industry-leading consultant firm specialising in IT-based staffing and software development solutions. We serve as an effective teammate for our international partners to help meet the business objectives set by end customers. Over the past few years, we’ve maintained a steadily growing presence in the industry, and can currently boast of a 200+ strong resource organisation to supervise our customers’ critical operations and intricate business applications.
Our firm is based on the philosophy of cultivating long-term relationships with clients, which is achieved by mastering development of cutting-edge technologies and incorporating proven process-driven methodologies into our workflow. Such competitive advantages are the secret behind how we provide effective, timely technology solutions to our clients, while strictly adhering to budget limits and being involved in a collaborative approach with them. If technology-based solutions to tackle a dynamic and demanding business environment are necessary, then look no further than S3staffingusa.
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